Fastening for shoes, &amp;c.



No. 734,360. PATENTED JULY 21, 19-03.

F. PASGHEN 6: J. DUGKRO.

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UNITED STATES Patented July 2 1, 1963.

PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK PASCHEN ANnJos PH-DUoKno, OF TAMPA, FLORIDA.

FASTENING m Rfsuoes, 8w.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 734,360, dated July 21, 1903. Application filed August 27, 1902. Serial llol 121,236. (No model.)

3 is a perspective view of two slotted tongueguides constructed according to our inven tion. 7

.Our invention is an improvement in that class of shoefasteners in which buttons, hooks, or lacings usually employed are dis; pensed with.

The invention is more particularly an improvement in that class of fastening in which a slidable member engages opposite guides secured to opposite edges-of the slot in the shoe-upper.

The details of construction, arrangement, and operation are as hereinafter described;

The shoe upper or is represented as slit lengthwise over the instep in the usual way.

To each edge of the upper thus slitted is attached aseries of tubular slotted guides l and 2 for the slidable tongue. The upper guide 1 is secured to the upper a by means of rivets, one being applied at each end and passing through a flat projecting tongue 1. The other and smaller guides 2are provided with a projecting tongue 2 at the lower end and are secured at that end only by means of a rivet, the upper end of the guide being tapered and adapted to be inserted and held in the lower end of'theguide' next above. The guides are constructed ofj'sheet metal or any other duly rigid material and have the form indicated in Fig. 3, in which the outer edge is shown curved over and inward and the inner edge curved upward and inward, a slot being left between them in which the tongue 3 slides. The latter is constructed of leather or other suitable flexible material and is provided along each edge with a roll or rib constituting an enlargement 3, which is of greater diameter than the slots in the several I guides 1 and 2. In consequence of this difference of diameter it is apparent that when the tongue is inserted in the guides, as shown in Figs l and 2, the enlargements or ribs 3 drawn together as the tongue is drawn up- ,ward, Thus the shoe is easily and quickly fastened by the simple insertion of the tongue and its upward movement in the guides, as described. In order to remove the tongue to unfasten the shoe, the lower projecting end of the tongue is seized and the same drawn downward. In order to impart greater rigidity to the ribs or side enlargements 30 of the tongue 3, a wire 4 or other stiffening material is inserted lengthwise in the center'of the ribs, as indicated in Fig. 2.

What we claim is- 1. A shoe having a slitted upper and a seriesot tubular slotted guides formed of rigidmat'erial, and secured to the edges of the upper, the end of each lower guide being inserted in the lower end or the one next above, as shown and described. 7

2. The combination with a shoe having a slitted upper and a series of tubular guides secured to the opposite'edges of its slit, the lower end of each lower guide being inserted in the one next above, and the tongue provided with enlarged side edges which are adapted to be held and slide in the guidesin the manner described.

3. A shoe provided with'a slitted upperhaving aseries of slotted tongue-guides arranged at the edge of the-slit, the upper guide being secured by two rivets and those below by'a single rivet, the upper ends of the lowerones being reduced and inserted in the lower ends of those next above, substantially as shown and described.

4. A shoe having a slitted upper and provided at each edge of the same with a. series of rigid and slotted tongue-guides, all the guides below the upper one being of less diameter at the upper end than the other end, and each such reduced end being inserted and held in the guide next above, in the manner shown and described.

Witness our hands this 9th day of Aiigust;

FREDERICK PASCHEN. JOSEPH DUOKRO. In presence of- S. PASGHEN, CHAS. J. LADD. 

